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In 1999, teenage Celeste (Raffey Cassidy) survives a violent tragedy. After singing at a memorial service,
Celeste transforms into a burgeoning pop star with the help of her songwriter sister (Stacy Martin) and a
talent manager (Jude Law). Celeste's meteoric rise to fame and concurrent loss of innocence dovetails
with a shattering terrorist attack on the nation, elevating the young powerhouse to a new kind of
celebrity: American icon, secular deity, global superstar.By 2017, adult Celeste (Natalie Portman) is mounting a comeback after a scandalous incident that
derailed her career. Touring in support of her sixth album, a compendium of sci-fi anthems entitled “Vox
Lux,” the indomitable, foul-mouthed pop savior must overcome her personal and familial struggles to
navigate motherhood, madness and monolithic fame in the Age of Terror.

In Brady Corbet's second feature, following his 2015 breakout debut The Childhood of a Leader— winner
of the Best Director and Best Debut Film prizes at the Venice Film Festival — Celeste becomes a symbol
of the cult of celebrity and the media machine in all its guts, grit and glory.

Brady Corbet, who both wrote and directed the film, explained how his inspiration for Vox Lux sprang from his debut film, saying "My previous film, The Childhood of a Leader, was set in Europe in the early part of the 20th century. It
examined key events that would go on, often inadvertently, to define the era. It featured a young
protagonist who was witness to the atrocities of an epoch, only to become a cause of them for the next.
The film was inspired by the revisionist histories of Robert Musil and WG Sebald — labyrinthine
constructs that imagine fictional characters as eyewitnesses of crucial historical turning-points, or reallife
personages placed in altered historical settings. For me, these stories demonstrate a more
transparent contract with the reader than the traditional historical biography because one is able to
access the past without questioning the author about how they could provide such a detailed account of
an event without having been present for the event themselves. Or if they had been present, in the case
of a memoir, has their memory of past experiences not betrayed them?

"Vox Lux is the continuation of that theme but on the other side of the century: an historical melodrama
set in America between 1999 and 2017. Its protagonist is a pop star called Celeste and it chronicles key
events and cultural patterns that have so far defined the early 21st century via her gaze."

Featuring original songs by
Sia, an original score by Scott Walker, and a transcendent performance by Natalie Portman, personifying
and pummeling the zeitgeist, Vox Lux is an origin story about the forces that shape us, as individuals,
nations, and gods.

Coming to select big screens in the US from Friday and across the country on 14th, Vox Lux will hit UK shores next year after its success at London Film Festival.

Vox Lux is financed and produced by Bold Films and Andrew Lauren Productions (ALP), written and
directed by Brady Corbet. ALP’s Andrew Lauren and D.J. Gugenheim are producers along with Killer
Films’ Christine Vachon and David Hinojosa, Bold Films’ Michel Litvak, Gary Michael Walters, David
Litvak and Svetlana Metkina and Brian Young from Three Six Zero Entertainment and Robert Salerno.
Portman and Law are executive producers along with Sia.